Reince Priebus promises the theocrats that his party won’t be tolerant toward gay people or women’s reproductive freedom, though it might consider being a little bit less rude about its intolerance. After all, “there’s only one sovereign God,” as described in “the New Testament.”
What a relief! Just for a moment, they had me worried.
I follow your Coulter policy of being fair to creeps. The New Testament was cited by Priebus in the context of “grace, love and respect”, and the “one sovereign God” in the next paragraph was not attributed to any authority. I think grace at least is a specifically NT - indeed specifically Pauline - concept, though love is of course not. I don’t where where he gets respect, an aristocratic value more to be found in Homer than the Bible. If it’s the Decalogue on honouring your parents, Jesus wasn’t keen on it at all. Paul is traditional on family values, but in the wider society, he counsels obedience to the powers that be, not respect.
Per the article (I didn’t watch the speech):
So: the GOP will continue to strive to adhere to Christian doctrine, and the head of the GOP declares that the official position of the GOP is an assertive monotheism.
To be fair, all of that is not necessarily inconsistent with Mormonism, or for that matter with Islam. But as an official position it is at least not welcoming and perhaps hostile to Atheists, Polytheists, and perhaps Jews.
And Buddhists, Taoists not very welcome either.
I do note you correctly leave out Mammonists as not being welcome, however.
I was following the transcript in the link. The exclusionary “Christianity” is of course clearly there.
“I don’t know if I’ve used the word ‘tolerance,’ I don’t really care for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it, I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction.”
Dang liberal dog whistles.
See, back in the nineties, when they were smarter, the GOP would have put the top down, flipped it and reversed it, ala compassionate conservatism. Where’s Tolerant Conservatism (TM) when you need it?